- - - what I assumed in a comment that I explicitly state what assumptions were made, and none of it has anything to do with swimming.
Syntax collapse - it happens to all of them, when their repetitions are confronted. They sputter.
It's not called a "meltdown", of course.
Everyone knows what you claimed to have assumed. But they can also read the two line joke, and realize that your claims are ridiculous.
The "joke" pivoted on some people - a defined group, frequently mocked - being forced by profitable corporate mismanagement to swim or drown after being denied lifesaving infrastructure - just as the California joke pivoted on a defined group, frequently mocked, being forced by profitable corporate mismanagement to flee or burn after being denied livesaving infrastructure.
As with parodies and sendups generally, both the "joke" and the "explanation" were carefully and (I see with a certain pride) quite effectively modeled after their targets above.
I just overlooked obvious pit trap of Poe's Law, is all. Sorry about that.
Normally I stay aware of the fact that humor or playfulness or double-entendre or sarcasm or gentle wit or the like is off limits for me here. I'm just lucky the reactionary cadre didn't fasten unto #32 - I'd have missed that one. And I still have hopes that Daylight Savings Time can be repealed - that would make a good argument for the restoration of good government, eh? C'mon, Dems - low hanging fruit.
and none of it has anything to do with swimming.
The "joke" you claimed to be explaining involved swimming - explicitly and centrally. You can't "get" it without assuming the Texans involved can swim.
so... did you mean
Bandar-log or
banderlog??
Proper nouns often devolved into common nouns over many decades - a standard English pattern. The hyphen is optional - I choose casually, based on the role of the word in the sentence, by ear. Did you have trouble comprehending? Do you need an explanation?
has anyone done a "banderlog" count yet?
You guys are up to three or four alternative spellings, misquotes, of the word I posted - the misquotes outnumber the accurately quoted spellings. Do you recall my frequent suggestion that you quote my posts directly, using the quote feature, rather than attempting paraphrase or interpretation?
Rather than attempt searches or counts of a term you can't spell and refuse to copy, count the one line innuendos posted as personal attacks in lieu of assertions or claims or discussion, and divide by three - that would give you a fair estimate, and you would not have to admit having read the posts you pretended to be talking about (letting you off the hook for deliberate deception in response).
In any case, we appear to have learned a bit about humorless scientists and the people who believe in them, so closely conjoined with the fully humor-enabled conservative rightwing Americans as they are.